Emer Kenny: I really miss Zsa Zsa!

Emer Kenny has revealed that she misses her EastEnders alter-ego Zsa Zsa Carter.

The 22-year-old portrayed the blue-haired troublemaker, whom she created, in the BBC soap's spin-off E20 for eight months in 2010.

"It was wicked. I do miss her character, I really do. She was really fun, but I played her for almost a year and that was enough for me," she said.

Emer, who was one of the first to go through the BBC's New Writers Summer School and has written her first full-length episode for EastEnders, loved playing a character she helped conceive.

"I knew her inside out so it felt really natural. She got to say some cool lines and put her middle finger up at the world quite a lot, which is unlike me," she explained.

"I'm not a rebel in any way so it was nice to put the blue extensions in and just feel different."

The actress-writer, who is writing episodes of Holby City and Doctors, may reprise the role in the future: "I'm going to say never say never because it is really fun working on that show. But I don't have any plans to at the moment. I think we're still waiting to hear if there's going to be another series of E20."

Her upcoming small screen appearances include the upcoming second series of E4 comedy Beaver Falls and the second series of BBC Three sitcom Pramface.

"I've spent the past three months in Cape Town filming Beaver Falls - it's fun," she said.